I would much rather everyone get free healthcare. Contrary to what you might think, I'd describe myself as a bleeding-heart liberal, but everybody has to play by the same rules. If everybody else has to pay for their own health care, then you don't get off for free because you're sad.
How is it that you can go through losing a child without learning that sometimes life sucks for no reason and there's nothing you can do about it?
I guess you did do something about it, which is not pay the bill (and hopefully ruined your credit in the process), but either way fuck you for your sense of entitlement. Somebody has to pay for that, and who better than the parents who had the sex to make it, made the decision to keep it, and now don't have to pay the hundred(s) of thousands of dollars to raise it? Cold? Hey, I'm not the one who made this about a balance sheet, you are.
On those occasions where I know exactly where I'm going and leaving from my house, yeah, but it almost always starts with a movie, or dinner, or whatever, but yeah when I can I do that. Sometimes somebody says they don't really feel like drinking much and they'll drive home, say they only had a couple over the course of the few hours we were there, and then they get busted by the breathalyzer I keep in my glove compartment.
I drive down there because if I don't, somebody who doesn't keep a breathalyzer their car will offer, and I know I'm enough of a hardass to annoy a group of drunken monkeys. I've gotten cursed out for it or called lame more times than I can count, but I usually get an apology/thanks in the morning.
I don't get why it's so hard for some people to just not drive, but that's just the way it is and over a long career of drinking myself stupid I've found that with my particular group of friends it's the best way to manage things. Other methods might work better in a different city or with different people.
If you can't trust yourself not to do what you've never done, you might as well get a gun, strip naked, start jerking off and see how many people you can shoot in the face twice at the same time. Over the years I've left my car at the bar literally hundreds of times and never driven it home, after thousands of dollars in parking tickets and cab fares and having it broken into twice, it's still less expensive than a single DWI.
If I do ever get behind the wheel and run someone down though, I hope it's you.
If you get stopped a second time trying to enter without getting a waiver (which you can't get within 5 years of your conviction), nonspecific bad things happen.
I mean, honestly, I hate the draconian nature of this, and would rather live with the consequences of not having these than have police-state laws like this, but...
Two of my idiot friends got their second DWIs recently. One of them recently enough that he's almost certainly going to have to put one of these things in, and I hope the other one as well. The less recent one rear-ended a stopped car at a traffic light--no one was injured, but he's still driving around his brand new car (brand new because he had a girl drive drunk while he was drunk and she smashed into a telephone pole... that one was new too) with a smashed up front end. He's probably been sentenced already, although tbh I don't talk to him much anymore because he's self-destructing in other spectacular ways that I don't want to be around. The more recent one went off the road and broke both his arms, almost died. He put off his court date for a month, GOD I hope he has to put this thing in.
So, as much as I don't like them... people will drive drunk. Over and over again, for no fucking reason. I was out with one of the two a couple months before all this, at a bar. I drove down with the plan to leave the car in the public lot and get a $10 ticket, then take a cab back home and a friend would drive me to my car in the morning. Well, closing time came around and this moron asked me to drive because it was kind of cold and he didn't want to wait a half hour for the cab to get there. I said no, so he, already with one DWI and drunk (but not drunk enough that he should have that poor of decision making ability), offered to drive my car. I said fuck no, and we waited, but the whole time he hounded me about it. It's just unfathomable how stupid people get about this, and they make the decisions drunk or sober. For instance, I drove down, but only because I know myself well enough to know that I'm not going to do something stupid once I get a buzz on. Other people, as you can see by reading this thread, will do anything they can to drive drunk, like leaving their cars running outside a bar. It's fucking insane, like straight up some kind of mental imbalance. Hell, I've stopped going to bars more than once every few months because it's such a pain in the ass and I can't see any reasonable explanation for anyone doing otherwise short of being broken in the head somehow.
So yeah, it sucks, but you won't hear me bitching about the law. No, I'll be laughing as these dipshits blow their car started at the order of some beeping box, and watching with interest to see what kind of backflips they'll do to fuck their own and other people's lives up even more, for NO REASON. Addicted to alcohol? Go to the grocery store, and drink for a quarter of the price! Throw a party at your house, sleep over at others' houses when you drink there, get a motel room if you're out of town and have nowhere else to sleep. D-d-d-don't drink so fucking much! It's the sober guy that gets laid at the after-party anyway. Jesus.
Because there aren't a lot of good interfaces for statically-typed language to web development. Believe me, if I didn't have to rewrite half the world to write web apps in C++ with a good Apache interface, I would do it in a heartbeat.
That said, don't forget that a whole lot of development is done in ASP.NET now. It's changing.
Because that's what life does, it scrabbles and grabs and claws for every drop of resources it can get so it can reproduce more, I'm honestly amazed you don't get this.
See my other two comments on the subject, vsync only introduces lag if it was either a.) done that way intentionally in order to minimize CPU/GPU usage, or b.) done wrong.
Vsync doesn't have to = lag, as I posted elsewhere you can continuously update the oldest buffer with a triple buffer and get at most 1 frame of lag, and by 1 frame I mean renderable frame not vsync refresh frame.
Use triple buffering, continually update the oldest back buffer instead of waiting for the next in line to be rendered. Only cost is 1.5x the video RAM (everything uses at least double buffering), and you end up with the most recently drawn complete image on the screen.
If you turn off vsync, you're throwing away information as you write to areas of the screen that will be updated again before the vertical refresh gets back to that area. I don't feel like some long drawn out explanation, so think about that and what causes tearing and you'll get it.
If you take that information, and instead of throwing it away interpolate between that and the currently being rendered image and apply a gradient fade (maybe even be fancy and use 2 frames back to be able to get a continuously curved gradient) however, you are only degrading the information, and that just happens to be exactly how the information gets degraded by our eyes so it does look like continuous motion.
Now, if they got rid of the artificial vertical refresh on LCD panels you would be correct, but the vertical refresh is there so you're wrong.
Also if cutscenes are an unanticipated part of a game engine, your game designers, architects, programmers, and TQA are all literally retarded, as in mentally disabled.
Uh, I was CAL-I and I'm also a programmer and you're wrong.
Also what the fuck do you mean "even if your eyes can't?" Yes I can tell the difference between 100 and 140 FPS but that's because my eyes don't have a vertical refresh and asynchronously sense different parts of the picture, so although no one cone updates faster than its own refresh, the total view can't really be given a "frames per second" measure, not because I'm strong in the fucking force or something.
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I would much rather everyone get free healthcare. Contrary to what you might think, I'd describe myself as a bleeding-heart liberal, but everybody has to play by the same rules. If everybody else has to pay for their own health care, then you don't get off for free because you're sad.
How is it that you can go through losing a child without learning that sometimes life sucks for no reason and there's nothing you can do about it?
I guess you did do something about it, which is not pay the bill (and hopefully ruined your credit in the process), but either way fuck you for your sense of entitlement. Somebody has to pay for that, and who better than the parents who had the sex to make it, made the decision to keep it, and now don't have to pay the hundred(s) of thousands of dollars to raise it? Cold? Hey, I'm not the one who made this about a balance sheet, you are.
A priest and a rabbi are walking down the street when they see a little boy. The priest says to the rabbi, "Hey, let's go fuck that little boy!"
The rabbi says, "Outta what?"
I'm not sure he thought this one through.
On those occasions where I know exactly where I'm going and leaving from my house, yeah, but it almost always starts with a movie, or dinner, or whatever, but yeah when I can I do that. Sometimes somebody says they don't really feel like drinking much and they'll drive home, say they only had a couple over the course of the few hours we were there, and then they get busted by the breathalyzer I keep in my glove compartment.
I drive down there because if I don't, somebody who doesn't keep a breathalyzer their car will offer, and I know I'm enough of a hardass to annoy a group of drunken monkeys. I've gotten cursed out for it or called lame more times than I can count, but I usually get an apology/thanks in the morning.
I don't get why it's so hard for some people to just not drive, but that's just the way it is and over a long career of drinking myself stupid I've found that with my particular group of friends it's the best way to manage things. Other methods might work better in a different city or with different people.
If you can't trust yourself not to do what you've never done, you might as well get a gun, strip naked, start jerking off and see how many people you can shoot in the face twice at the same time. Over the years I've left my car at the bar literally hundreds of times and never driven it home, after thousands of dollars in parking tickets and cab fares and having it broken into twice, it's still less expensive than a single DWI.
If I do ever get behind the wheel and run someone down though, I hope it's you.
If you get stopped once, they turn you back.
If you get stopped a second time trying to enter without getting a waiver (which you can't get within 5 years of your conviction), nonspecific bad things happen.
Ahahahahahahahaha this is hilarious.
I mean, honestly, I hate the draconian nature of this, and would rather live with the consequences of not having these than have police-state laws like this, but...
Two of my idiot friends got their second DWIs recently. One of them recently enough that he's almost certainly going to have to put one of these things in, and I hope the other one as well. The less recent one rear-ended a stopped car at a traffic light--no one was injured, but he's still driving around his brand new car (brand new because he had a girl drive drunk while he was drunk and she smashed into a telephone pole... that one was new too) with a smashed up front end. He's probably been sentenced already, although tbh I don't talk to him much anymore because he's self-destructing in other spectacular ways that I don't want to be around. The more recent one went off the road and broke both his arms, almost died. He put off his court date for a month, GOD I hope he has to put this thing in.
So, as much as I don't like them ... people will drive drunk. Over and over again, for no fucking reason. I was out with one of the two a couple months before all this, at a bar. I drove down with the plan to leave the car in the public lot and get a $10 ticket, then take a cab back home and a friend would drive me to my car in the morning. Well, closing time came around and this moron asked me to drive because it was kind of cold and he didn't want to wait a half hour for the cab to get there. I said no, so he, already with one DWI and drunk (but not drunk enough that he should have that poor of decision making ability), offered to drive my car. I said fuck no, and we waited, but the whole time he hounded me about it. It's just unfathomable how stupid people get about this, and they make the decisions drunk or sober. For instance, I drove down, but only because I know myself well enough to know that I'm not going to do something stupid once I get a buzz on. Other people, as you can see by reading this thread, will do anything they can to drive drunk, like leaving their cars running outside a bar. It's fucking insane, like straight up some kind of mental imbalance. Hell, I've stopped going to bars more than once every few months because it's such a pain in the ass and I can't see any reasonable explanation for anyone doing otherwise short of being broken in the head somehow.
So yeah, it sucks, but you won't hear me bitching about the law. No, I'll be laughing as these dipshits blow their car started at the order of some beeping box, and watching with interest to see what kind of backflips they'll do to fuck their own and other people's lives up even more, for NO REASON. Addicted to alcohol? Go to the grocery store, and drink for a quarter of the price! Throw a party at your house, sleep over at others' houses when you drink there, get a motel room if you're out of town and have nowhere else to sleep. D-d-d-don't drink so fucking much! It's the sober guy that gets laid at the after-party anyway. Jesus.
Because there aren't a lot of good interfaces for statically-typed language to web development. Believe me, if I didn't have to rewrite half the world to write web apps in C++ with a good Apache interface, I would do it in a heartbeat.
That said, don't forget that a whole lot of development is done in ASP.NET now. It's changing.
Oh don't worry, we have an open relationship.
But, if you want to be "shot"...
Why do you want to be shot by your husband?
Because that's what life does, it scrabbles and grabs and claws for every drop of resources it can get so it can reproduce more, I'm honestly amazed you don't get this.
For that price, they could have everything done three times, or hell even 5, and check for agreement.
You're right, forget the whole thing, let's all just get on with the inevitable and set off every nuke at the same time.
What's ridiculous is trying to turn the 3rd law into a quasi-religious justification for fatalism.
Damn straight. Tab indenting is, funnily enough, accomplished with the tab character. Make it as many spaces as you want, I don't care.
Slashdot doesn't strip the spaces, your browser's HTML parser does. <-- There's two spaces there, look at the source.
Oh I don't think we'll condition people preferring the first thing they try out of our nature any time soon.
See my other two comments on the subject, vsync only introduces lag if it was either a.) done that way intentionally in order to minimize CPU/GPU usage, or b.) done wrong.
Try enabling triple buffering.
Vsync doesn't have to = lag, as I posted elsewhere you can continuously update the oldest buffer with a triple buffer and get at most 1 frame of lag, and by 1 frame I mean renderable frame not vsync refresh frame.
Use triple buffering, continually update the oldest back buffer instead of waiting for the next in line to be rendered. Only cost is 1.5x the video RAM (everything uses at least double buffering), and you end up with the most recently drawn complete image on the screen.
Actually, no, you're exactly wrong.
If you turn off vsync, you're throwing away information as you write to areas of the screen that will be updated again before the vertical refresh gets back to that area. I don't feel like some long drawn out explanation, so think about that and what causes tearing and you'll get it.
If you take that information, and instead of throwing it away interpolate between that and the currently being rendered image and apply a gradient fade (maybe even be fancy and use 2 frames back to be able to get a continuously curved gradient) however, you are only degrading the information, and that just happens to be exactly how the information gets degraded by our eyes so it does look like continuous motion.
Now, if they got rid of the artificial vertical refresh on LCD panels you would be correct, but the vertical refresh is there so you're wrong.
Also if cutscenes are an unanticipated part of a game engine, your game designers, architects, programmers, and TQA are all literally retarded, as in mentally disabled.
Uh, I was CAL-I and I'm also a programmer and you're wrong.
Also what the fuck do you mean "even if your eyes can't?" Yes I can tell the difference between 100 and 140 FPS but that's because my eyes don't have a vertical refresh and asynchronously sense different parts of the picture, so although no one cone updates faster than its own refresh, the total view can't really be given a "frames per second" measure, not because I'm strong in the fucking force or something.
Oh, and accurate motion blur, unlike the cartoony imitation (that is, tbh, getting better) in today's games.